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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Surname Saturday ~ Blodgett of Cambridge and Woburn, Massachusetts

BLOGGETT

Thomas Blogget was born about 1605 in England and
arrived in Massachusetts in 1635 on board the ship “Increase” with his wife
Susanna and two of his children; Daniel age 4 and Samuel, age 1. He had
been a glover in England. He was made a
freeman and admitted to the church in Cambridge on 3 March 1635/6. He owned many parcels of land before his
death in 1641. His house is believed to
have been located between Massachusetts Avenue and Oxford Street, near Wendell,
which is now located exactly where I went to school at Lesley College (My senior
year dorm was one block over on the corner of Oxford and Mellen).

His wife remarried to James Thompson on 15 February
1643/4 and resettled in Woburn with her children. Thomas had six children, one daughter,
Susanna, married her stepbrother, Jonathan Thomson, and one of their
descendants was Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson (1753 – 1814). Another
Blodgett descendant is President Calvin Coolidge.

In his will, dated 10 August 1641 and probated in
1643, he left all his estate to his wife.
The phrase “father-in-law” in the will refers to a possible future
stepfather.

"I, Thomas Bloggett, being at this
time in my right mind, give to my wife Susan my whole estate after my decease
as well within as without. She to bring up my Children in such learning and
other things as is meet for them and pay to oldest son Daniel 15 pounds, when
one and twenty or in one month after decease. To second son Samuel 15 pounds as
above. To daughter Susanna 15 pounds. Should they have a father-in-law how does
not treat them well, my will is that the Deacons and our brother Fessington and
our brother Edward Winship they or either of them shall have power to see unto
it and reforme it by one means or other.

Written this 10th day of the 9th month,
1641.

Thomas Blogget

In presence of us,

Thomas Harris

John Meena"

You can read a sketch of Thomas Blodgett in The
Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635, by Robert
Charles Anderson, George Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Volume 1, pages 324 – 325, 2001. There is also a six volume set of books with
an index called Blodget-Blodgett Descendants of Thomas of Cambridge, by Bradley
DeForest Thompson and Franklin Condit Thompson, 1954. If you are lucky, you might find your
Blodgett line in the papers of Isaac Dimond Blodgett which are stored in the
manuscript collection at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in
Boston. Isaac Blodgett was born in 1828,
elected a member of NEHGS in 1903 and died in 1916.

My lineage from Thomas Blodgett:

Generation 1: Thomas Blodgett, born about 1605, died
between 10 August 1641 (date of will) and 10 December 1642 (date of his
inventory); married Susanna Unknown

Generation 2: Samuel Blodgett, born 12 July 1633 in
England, died 3 July 1687 in Woburn, Massachusetts; married on 13 December 1655
to Ruth Eggleton, daughter of Stephen Eggleton and Elizabeth. She was baptized on 8 November 1632 at All
Saint’s, Biddendon, Kent, England and died 14 October 1703 in Woburn.

Generation 3:
Susanna Blodgett born 17 February 1663 in Woburn, died 9 February 1715
in Woburn; married on 29 December 1685 in Woburn to James Simonds, son of
William Simonds and Judith Phippen. He
was born 1 November 1658 in Woburn, and died on 15 September 1717 in Woburn.

3 comments:

This surname brings back a lot of memories, when I was young we always shopped at Blodgett's grocery store. They also had a hardware store that took about a third of the building. I am not related to the Blodgett's but thanks for the memories.

Hello again cousin! I am descended from Thomas Blodgett, my 9th great-grandfather, through his son Daniel. As I always tell people, if you can trace your ancestry to colonial New England, you are likely related to anyone else who can trace their ancestry to colonial New England!

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